hoping kyle rittenhouse never feels safe in his life ever again and lives the rest of his days in his undeserved freedom as scared as humanly possible to leave his house every day
If you're one of the handful of people in the notes claiming that you've never heard of this (and are American), you have no excuse. It's been a year, you have to have actually dedicated yourself to learning nothing about racism for the past year in order to have missed this which is a dangerous way to weaponize your white privilege.
Lol, fuck off ableist. It's not hard FOR YOU. Also, learning about racism isn't the same as paying attention to every single instance of it. Get off your high horse and look up compassion fatigue. As you say "it's not that hard."
I'm disabled + black. I'm fatigued by my very existence. If I have to learn about all this shit, so do you. I don't have the choice and it's racist and pathetic to choose not to care. You have no idea what it's like to have this actually affect you, don't talk to me about fucking "fatigue".
Also, this isn't "every single instance" this is a long-term, infamous incident that was well documented for a while. You have to have purposefully missed in order not to know (or have lived under a rock).
Anyway, fuck off and read a news article once and a while, you shitty little racist đ take the blm out of your bio bc you clearly don't mean it!
I apologize again for my hostile first response. To your point, tho, saying that "if you have to deal with it then so do I" is completely understandable, but it's not practical. For example, I try to be an ally to the unhoused people in my city. There's not much I can do, but I try not to ignore them and to respond to their requests the best I can. Imagine if one of them said "if I have to live on the street, then so do you." What would that accomplish? I'd better understand them, sure, but then I'd undergo a negative mental health spiral to the point that I couldn't take care of myself, nevermind help their cause at all.
It's a different, but similar thing for you. You say one would have to purposefully avoid learning about this incident? In my case, at least, you're not wrong. I had to stop reading the news because of my mental health. I also acknowledge that you're right that that's not a privilege everyone has; I'm aware black people don't have the luxury of ignoring racism. What I would ask you to consider is what good would come from some random disabled white person falling into a depressive spiral do for you or any other black person? Yup, I would definitely be suffering for not being a better ally, but like... then what? I just die and that's one less white person in the world? Or are you hoping that if I suffer enough that I'll then be able to be a better ally?
You'll be happy to know that I feel like a bad person and a bad ally. I do try to listen to black people when they talk about how to be a better ally, but I'm simply incapable of much of anything. In this case, I know for certain that reading the news will make me a worse ally, because I've done that, and unfortunately lying in bed doing nothing but feeling bad about myself doesn't actually make the world any better.
did you just insinuate youâll kill yourself if you have to learn about racism
never thought i'd see the day somebody thought 'racism makes me as a white person sad :( so i'll just leave black people and people or colour to be crushed under the weight of it. don't worry tho i feel bad!' was a good and progressive take, let alone a good take in response to being asked to *checks op's post* read the news
